New preprint: dormancy dynamics, dispersal, and resilience
We have a new preprint! MMG grad student Jackson designed a mesocosm experiment to assess the contributions of dormancy dynamics and...


Welcome to Professor Eliana Guedes-Stehling
#ShadeLab warmly welcomes Professor Eliana Guedes-Stehling to join us for her 10-month sabbatical at Michigan State! Eliana is a...
Nejc travels to the APS meeting
Nejc is representing #ShadeLab at the American Pathological Society meeting today in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is attending a workshop on the...
ShadeLab at PNNL MultiOmics for Microbiomes
Ashley and John C are traveling to Washington state this week for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Multi-omics for Microbiomes...


We'll miss you, Jacqueline!
We wish our summer student, Jacqueline Carroll, so long! She's been so awesome working with Fina on bean microbiomes!

Ashley at the GRC on Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Ashley just returned from the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology! Thanks to the organizers for a...


We have a new #ShadeLab member!
We are excited to share that BMS student Oishi Bagchi has officially joined ShadeLab! Welcome, Oishi!
Congratulations to John and Fina
MMG graduate student John Chodkowski and PSM graduate student Fina Bintarti have both won college travel awards to attend upcoming...


USDA NIFA Award to study the inheritance of the seed microbiome during abiotic stress
Ashley and collaborators Chad Niederhuth (Michigan State) and Matthieu Barret (INRA, Beacouzé, France) have been awarded funding from...


Welcome, summer students!
Welcome to undergraduate summer students John Higgins and Jacqueline Carroll! John H is a Michigan State student and Jacqueline hails...